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Natural Resources
Vocabulary # 10
Term | Definition |
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natural resources | materials in the environment that are useful to people |
renewable resources | natural resources that nature can produce again, such as trees, plants, animals, water, oxygen, and soil |
conservation | the practice of decreasing the use of natural resources in order to save them |
nonrenewable resources | natural resources, such as fossil fuels, that will eventually be used up and can never replaced |
fossil fuels | fuels formed from the decaying remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago |
coal | a type of fossil fuel that is a solid |
oil | a type of fossil fuel that is a liquid |
natural gas | a type of fossil fuel that is a gas |